Today in History: November 3, Sputnik 2 carries first animal into space

Today is Sunday, Nov. 3, the 308th time of 2024. There are 58 days near successful the year. Daylight redeeming clip ends today.

Today successful history:

On Nov. 3, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the spacecraft Sputnik 2, carrying the archetypal carnal into orbit, a canine named Laika.

Also connected this date:

In 1908, Republican William Howard Taft was elected president, outpolling Democrat William Jennings Bryan.

In 1911, the Chevrolet Motor Car Co. was founded successful Detroit by Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant.

In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt easy won reelection, losing conscionable 2 states to the Republican candidate, Kansas Gov. Alf Landon.

In 1961, diplomat U Thant of Burma (now Myanmar) was elected secretary-general of the United Nations pursuing the decease of his predecessor, Dag Hammarskjold, successful an airplane crash.

In 1979, 5 Communist Workers Party members were killed successful a clash with heavy equipped Ku Klux Klansmen and neo-Nazis during an anti-Klan protestation successful Greensboro, North Carolina.

In 1992, Democrat Bill Clinton was elected the 42nd president of the United States, defeating President George H.W. Bush.

In 2012, the lights went backmost connected successful little Manhattan to the alleviation of residents who had been plunged into acheronian for astir 5 days by Hurricane Sandy.

In 2014, 13 years aft the 9/11 attack, a caller 1,776-foot skyscraper astatine the World Trade Center tract opened for business, marking an affectional milestone for some New Yorkers and the nation.

In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden won the presidency, though his triumph would not beryllium known for much than 3 days arsenic counting continued successful battleground states; Republican President Donald Trump would garbage to concede, falsely claiming that helium was a unfortunate of wide elector fraud.

Today’s Birthdays:

• Former Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis is 91.
• Economist and Nobel Prize laureate Amartya Sen is 91.
• Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, is 77.
• Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is 75.
• Boxing Hall of Famer Larry Holmes is 75.
• Scientist David Ho is 72.
• Comedian-actor Roseanne Barr is 72.
• Actor Kate Capshaw is 71.
• Comedian Dennis Miller is 71.
• Singer Adam Ant is 70.
• Actor Dolph Lundgren is 67.
• Olympic golden medal fig skater Evgeni Plushenko is 42.
• Actor Antonia Thomas (TV: “The Good Doctor”) is 38.
• Former NFL backmost Colin Kaepernick is 37.
• TV personality-model Kendall Jenner is 29.